Posted on 06/18/2015 4:26:10 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Edited on 06/18/2015 4:53:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Everything in the path of the proposed trans-oceanic canal in Nicaragua would have to be relocated. Churches. Cemeteries. Stockyards.
As many as 28,000 people scattered in villages and towns face the likelihood that their lands would be expropriated. The government pledges they will be better off, living in new settlements with a bit of cash in their pockets. But skepticism abounds. Ranchers are angry. They
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China will have its own “Panama Canal”
lovely
China may find that Nicaragua is not China and the people not so easily moved.
I thought it was only Evil American Capitalists that did this sort of thing.
Not a Chinaman’s chance...
The idea of a Nicaraguan canal has been around since the days of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Not going to happen.
“Not a Chinaman’s chance...”.....
While a clever pun, long ago I learned never to say never.
They already have the Panama Canal ... that will give them two.
IIRC overcoming the enormous engineering challenges and structural complexities of the Panama Canal was seen as less daunting a task than digging a sea level canal through Nicaragua, even with the available technology of more than a century ago.
What makes the Chinese think they can succeed in Nicaragua now probably has to do with their “success” in re-engineering the Yangtze River, where the concerns of the local populace mean little to the communist bosses in Beijing.
The Sandinistas are more or less back in power in Nicaragua. They are sympatico with this Pope.
Maybe a President Trump intends to get the Chinese to build the canal across our entire southern border. They can build it, maintain it and guard it. That would save them a lot of money in shipping time and distance, and we could work a debt-reduction deal, using illegals as laborers — a pathway to repatriation in Mexico. Win-win-win!
These are pitiful, tear-jerking personal stories. But how are they different from the stories of the farmers and families displaced by the Tennessee Valley Authority dams and lakes decreed under Roosevelt? Socialist regimes get the public works (and anything else) they want, regardless of the cost to individuals and their property and freedom. Nothing to see here. Move along
Public works will be definition displace people. My own family lost the house my dad grew up in to a flood control impoundment in KS.
But people also complain about CA not building more dams and reservoirs and canals. All of which would displace people and animals.
Infrastructure always causes some people grief. Whether built by commies or capitalists. That is not, of itself, a reason not to build it. Although those displaced should be adequately compensated, as indeed our constitution requires. Though not always followed.
Thanks Citizen Zed. The canal will also help the Sandinistas strengthen their hold on the drug traffic north.
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